Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, is only the third confirmed interstellar object observed in our solar system. The comet is traveling at an extraordinary ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...